Has Emily Bugeaud, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,780 in general payments to Emily Bugeaud, MD across 13 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Emily Bugeaud, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Emily Bugeaud, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Emily Bugeaud, MD

Transplant Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1164683074

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,156 of the $1,780 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 64.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,156 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $36 in 2025.

$1,780in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $136.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$1K
Sanofi$209
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$207
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$132
Organ Recovery Systems, Inc.$36
Abbott$20
plus $20 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,15665%
Food & beverage$52429%
Education$1006%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Intuitive Surgical	3	$1,156
Sanofi	2	$209
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$207
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$132
Organ Recovery Systems, Inc.	1	$36
Abbott	1	$20
Johnson & Johnson	2	$20

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

Too few transplant surgery providers in Louisianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$38,895

Medicare patients

Services billed

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Valganciclovir Hcl	34	$3,628
Ursodiol	14	$569
Dapsone	15	$490
Pantoprazole Sodium	18	$312
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	17	$244
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	31	$190
Prednisone	15	$44

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other transplant surgery in New Orleans

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Dennis Sonnier JrNew Orleans$7K
Trine EngebretsenNew Orleans$4K
Justin BarrNew Orleans$3K
John SealNew Orleans$2K
Humberto BohorquezNew Orleans$2K
David BruceNew Orleans$252
Trevor ReichmanNew Orleans$174
Anil ParameshMetairie$21K
Lee CummingsMetairie$12K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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